Osman Cleander Baker

Osmon Cleander Baker (30 July 1812 – 20 December 1871) was an American biblical scholar and bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

Soon after he converted to Christianity and was received into the church by Dr. Wilbur Fisk (who was at that time Principal of the school).

In 1829 Baker was licensed to exhort in his seventeenth year; young, unmarried men were chosen because they were most able to travel among a circuit of communities.

Dr. Osmon Cleander Baker was elected and consecrated to the episcopacy of the Methodist Episcopal Church by the 1852 General Conference.

That year Bishop Baker suffered partial paralysis from a stroke while on his way to preside over the Colorado Annual Conference.

Matthew Simpson, who was made a bishop at the same General Conference, wrote this of his colleague Osman Cleander Baker:

Osmon Cleander Baker, c.1855-1865